"You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown!": Celebrating 75 Years of "Peanuts" w/ Mark Evanier, Chip Kidd and Charles Kochman

About this episode

Frank celebrates the 75th anniversary of 'Peanuts' with superfans and contributors discussing Schulz's impact and creative process.

Frank celebrates (a bit belatedly) the 75th anniversary of Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" by welcoming three superfans and key contributors to Abrams ComicArts' deluxe hardcover collection, "The Essential Peanuts: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time": author Mark Evanier, contributing designer Chip Kidd and publisher Charles Kochman. In this episode, the experts discuss Schulz's creative process, his "deceptively simple" design sense, his evolution as a humorist, and the strip's five-decade meditation on the human condition. Also, Chip praises the Schulz Museum and Research Center, and Mark and Charles look back on personal encounters with the iconic cartoonist. PLUS: "A Charlie Brown Christmas"! "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron"! Chip tangles with 007! Charlie hangs with Chico Marx' daughter! And the boys reveal some of their favorite "Peanuts" strips (out of the more than 17,000 published)! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Frank Santopadre

Guests: Mark Evanier, Chip Kidd, Charles Kochman

Topics covered

• Peanuts
• Charles Schulz
• comic strips
• humor
• creative process
• pop culture

Keywords

• Peanuts
• Charles Schulz
• Mark Evanier
• Chip Kidd
• Charles Kochman
• comic strip
• humor
• 75th anniversary

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Peanuts, The Essential Peanuts: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Snoopy vs. the Red Baron

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